Through the INA, the Indonesia-Netherlands-Belgium Association

Through the INA, the Indonesia-Netherlands-Belgium Association in Jakarta, over 200 Dutch and Belgian companies in Indonesia vowed to support the Acehnese victims in the most practical sense.

INA and the company PA Asia are working hard on the preparations of a so-called Community Home in Lampaya. Talks are being held with the keucik, the local village head, about the land on which the Community Home can be built. The keucik emphasized the urgency of the Community Home, which will provide basic medical and psychiatric care to the community and from which also support will be given by experts of the Agriculture University of Wageningen in the rehabilitation of agriculture in the area.

The location currently envisaged is right next to the main road around five kilometers going south from Banda Aceh. The location is five hundred metres away from an area along the coast which is totally devastated by the tsunami.

The Community Home, a light metal construction, is currently being built outside of Indonesia. It will be shipped on 9 May and is scheduled to arrive on 28 May on the location. Before that time, a high quality foundation needs to be built, for which a land survey is still necessary. It is a challenge to find the services in Aceh that are needed to build the Home, but with a lot of support from Dutch and Indonesian companies, good progress is being made.

Companies that have provided great support are: ABN Amro Bank, Unilever, Phillips, DSM, P&O Nedlloyd, Propan Raya, Royal Haskoning, Holland Colours Asia and the Rabobank Hans Winkelmolen fund.